Karaite Jews are considered to be the spiritually descendants of the Sadducees. They completely dismiss the Babylonian Talmud as the worthless ramblings of men, therefore they are heretics to Rabbinical Jews.
In 12th century Spain, it was the Rabbinical Jews who expelled Karaite Jews from the country:
"In twelfth-century Spain, Christian authorities supported the local Rabbanite community and helped the latter to expel the Karaites from Spain."
The Karaites of Galicia: An Ethnoreligious Minority Among the Ashkenazim (2008) By Mikhail Kizilov
"We find the Jewish leadership in Muslim Spain and in the Christian states of the early Reconquista boasting of their vigorous action in suppressing the few representatives of the Karaite sect."
Aspects of Jewish culture in the Middle Ages (1979) By Paul E. Szarmach
"Rabbi Yoseph ben Faruj, who was made the head of the Jews in Spain and given the title of Prince, expelled the Karaites."
Jewish Fundamentalism In Israel (1999) By Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky
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